Doug has always enjoyed building things for the farm and passed this passion onto their two sons. Praxidyn, their manufacturing company, was started with their sons to create automation for the farm. Mechatronics is their specialty and they do the mechanical and electronic engineering along with all the software from the embedded control, app, and cloud service software. Farming and engineering are his two career choices and he has the privilege of doing both with his family.

In the last couple of weeks, I have had conversations that have brought home why it is hard to be an ecosystem builder. Three different conversations took place that I am going to illustrate why it is hard. I am intentionally not including names because I think it makes it less about me and more about us – ecosystem builders.

Join us August 25th at 5PM for our virtual chat featuring Tom Trone, one of the founding principals for Riverbend Angels. Tom is a retired Sales, Marketing, and Business Development executive from a renowned Fortune 100 global company.

We do a lot of work associated with economic development, and the reality is that many are attempting to retain and recruit talent. With the pandemic still raging, hundreds of New Yorkers and Californians are looking for somewhere else to live. So, I ask you, “would you move to your hometown?”

Tractor Zoom is creating an easier shopping experience for equipment sold at auction with their unique way to connect farmers and auctioneers across the world. Tractor Zoom overhauls the auction advertising process and simplifies the decision-making process for farmers, all the while increasing their inventory options.

Ecosystems are complicated systems that involve many variables and moving parts. Solutions to complex economic problems often involve small movements of elements that are not naturally connected to each other. In our practice, we have attempted to simplify the elements of an ecosystem into some areas that we recognize as being repetitive and recurring.

People say that I say “I am sorry” too often. That I say it for no reason as most of my apologies are about things that are not my fault…but this is the problem. Sometimes, there can be sorry-ness because you know that you should have done and can do better. Things in society are my fault – not 100% but I should work harder to change them.

In our opinion a knowledgeable community is one where citizens understand the fundamentals of starting a business, the challenges that may be presented, the way that they can help, and the means to have conversations with clearly articulated diction.

if you are thinking about how to reset, rebuild, or build for the first time your local ecosystem’s capital markets, keep in find the four principles from above: Decentralized, Transparency, Liquidity, and Governance.

Ever wonder what actually happens at a data center? Lucky for you, the Midwest is a haven for data centers including Google, Facebook, and more. What goes on behind those doors is a bit of a mystery, but with this TechBrew we hope to pull back the curtain and get a glimpse into what data centers actually do.

To transform an entrepreneurial ecosystem is not simply a matter of fixing one thing, but contemporaneously moving forward (a little bit at a time) on lots of related elements. Introductions, networking events, and social media are all activities...

An entrepreneurial ecosystem is the interconnected system of social and economic factors within which individual builders interact in their community. Entrepreneurial ecosystems are complex, and this is one of the reasons they are poorly understood…